On 12 Apr 2018, at 18:20, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Bill Cole
<postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
postfwd2/policy[4807]: warning: Complex regular subexpression
recursion limit (32766) exceeded at
/opt/postfix/postfwd/sbin/postfwd2 line 1168, <$fh> line 230.?
Perhaps ask whoever maintains "postfwd2" what they mean by "<$fh>" ?
The "<$fh>" is not the issue. The problem is on line 1168 of the
postfwd2
Perl script, while matching a regular expression against line 230 of
the
file handle <$fh>.
One would expect that I'd recognize that error message but it seems that
I need to write MORE bad Perl. In my defense, I don't use postfwd2 and
didn't know it was written in Perl.
So the thing to check with the author of postfwd2 is what's going on
with the regular expression on line 1168.
That is a scary one. It seems like an attempt to express all of the
leniencies in a config format in a single regex, where a preliminary
canonicalization (reducing all runs of whitespace to a single space
maybe?) would eliminate the need for some of the complexities.
But yes, that's really an issue to take up with the author and/or other
postfwd2 users. The postfwd.org site indicates that a user mailing list
exists.
